1 Timothy 2:10

but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

In Context

9And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

11Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection.

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Cross References

Acts 9:36Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being translated, is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charities that she did.

Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

1 Peter 2:12Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

2 Peter 1:6and in knowledge, self-control, and in self-control, perseverance, and in perseverance, piety,

Revelation 2:19I know thy works, and thy love and faith and service and perseverance. And thy last works are more than the first.

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 2:10-15

Paul's Charge to Females. ( a. d. 64.) 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being… Read the whole commentary →

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